Death of Celilo Falls / by Katrine Barber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barber, Katrine.

Series:

Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.

The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project--History.

Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project.

Indians of North America--Fishing--Oregon--Celilo.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--Oregon--Celilo.

Indians of North America--Relocation--Oregon--Celilo.

Salmon fishing--Oregon--Celilo.

Salmon fishing.

Fishery law and legislation--Oregon--Celilo.

Fishery law and legislation.

Water rights--Oregon--Celilo.

Water rights.

Dalles Dam (Or. and Wash.)--History.

Dalles Dam (Or. and Wash.).

Dalles Dam (Or. and Wash.)--Environmental conditions.

Celilo (Or.)--Social conditions.

Celilo (Or.).

Celilo (Or.)--Environmental conditions.

Dalles (Or.)--Environmental conditions.

Dalles (Or.).

Columbia River--Water rights.

Columbia River.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Although the Indian community of Celilo Village survives to this day as Oregon's oldest continuously inhabited town, with the construction of The Dalles Dam in 1957, traditional uses of the river were catastrophically interrupted. Most non-Indians celebrated the new generation of hydroelectricity and the easy navigability of the river "highway" created by the dam, but Indians lost a sustaining center to their lives when Celilo Falls was inundated. Death of Celilo Falls is a story of ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances, as neighboring communities went through tremendous economic, environmental, and cultural change in a brief period. Katrine Barber examines the negotiations and controversies that took place during the planning and construction of the dam and the profound impact the project had on both the Indian community of Celilo Village and the non-Indian town of The Dalles, intertwined with local concerns that affected the entire American West: treaty rights, federal Indian policy, environmental transformation of rivers, and the idea of "progress."

Contents:

Village and town : the communities transformed by the Dalles Dam

A riverscape as contested space

Debating the dam : "a serious breach of good faith"

Narratives of progress : development and population growth at the Dalles

Relocation and the persistence of Celilo Village: "we don't 'come from' anywhere"

Negotiating values : settlement and final compensation

Conclusion: Losses.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9780295800929

0295800925

OCLC:

768123152